This will be the final chapter of our Excellent French Adventures. Before I continue, I wanted to expand on the experience that we had at the George V hotel that we visited a few days ago. When we entered the front of the hotel, there…

I was asked how many people are getting this journal. The number is now at 51 people and it has grown with every trip for the past 2 years. It is being sent to 5 countries outside of Canada from Germany to Indonesia. Our adventures…

One of the issues that we were obviously going to be facing was the language issue. For the past 25 years, whenever I told anyone that I was originally from Montreal, I was always asked “well, you must speak French”. My answer was always that…

Oct. 11, 2002: We arrived in Nice, France on Friday afternoon after making our connecting flight from London Heathrow. We were in possession of our bags within 5 minutes and this was a good start to the trip. Our hotel in Nice is cheap, clean…

So here we are again with a couple of hours before our flight on our next adventure. By this time tomorrow, we will have checked into our hotel in Nice in the south of France. We’ve sporting our French-English phrasebooks and other assortment of guidebooks…